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..........Write Beside Them by Penny Kittle

  • Text Features, Structure and Craft Clues-- Amy & Elizabeth........Text Structures are not specific forms to be filled in by students but rather ways of thinking and generative patterns of thought. The form cannot become more important than the purpose.

..........General Strategies for Reading Informational Text
......... Graphic Organizers
..........Graphic Texts
..........Text Structures Amy
..........Understanding Text Features
..........Text Structures Elizabeth
..........Apple Activity
..........Signal Words
..........Answers

  • Summary-- Elizabeth
..........Introducing Summary
... ......Determining Key Ideas, House Activity
..... ....Summary vs. Paraphrasing
..........Model Summary and Article
..........Research Logs
..........Student Logs Samples (Kody, Bri, Adam, Devin)

  • Annotating and Think-Aloud Elizabeth

.........About Annotation
........."Where Nothing Says Everything"
.........Close Reading Passage
.........Annotation of "Where Nothing Says Everything"

  • Close Reading Elizabeth

..........What Is Close Reading?
..........Adaption of Informational Text Signposts
..........Specific Questions
.........My Learning Lab on Close Reading
  • Formulating Claims and Synthesis of Information Elizabeth

..........A claim is the author's assertion or what he or she is trying to prove.
.........Foursquare Model
.........Foursquare Method

  • Using Cartoons Elizabeth
..........CartoonPDF
  • Author's Purpose and Bias Amy

.........Purpose of text: Student Activity
.........Purposes of Nonfiction
.........Reading Nonfiction Strategically (author, purpose, and bias)

..........They Say, I Say Templates (Index of Types, Connecting Ideas)
..........Five Parts Not Five Paragraphs
..........Article About the 5 Paragraph Essay
..........Paragraph Model and Article
..........Research Paper Paragraphs
..........Blank Model
--------Quotes about Education and Creating a Paragraph

  • Grade Level Unit Exploration Amy
  • Evaluation Elizabeth